The vice president’s staff then attempted to cut off discussion of the 2016 race, Mic News reported.

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However Biden was not to be dissuaded from going forward. He told Mic News he had “no problem” discussing the potential election of a woman while maintaining that he would not go down “that rabbit (hole)” of a formal endorsement.

“The president and I are not going endorse because we both, when we ran said, ‘Let the party decide.’ But gosh almighty, they’re both qualified. Hillary’s overwhelmingly qualified to be president,” Biden said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Biden characterized tensions between front-runner Hillary Clinton and challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders as the normal course of campaigning.

“Look, they’re both totally qualified to be president. They both get in a fight. Campaigns do this. It’s like saying, you know, ‘She’s dead wrong’ or her saying, ‘He’s dead wrong’ on an issue,” the vice president said.

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The vice president pointed out that Sanders did not say Clinton is “not qualified because she’s a woman.”

Biden rebutted the idea that Clinton, as a woman, faces a higher standard.

“No, I don’t think she’s held to a higher standard. This country’s ready for a woman. There’s no problem. We’re going to be able to elect a woman in this country,” he said. “I would like to see a woman elected.”

In the background of a video of the interview, the voices of staff members can be heard.

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“The voices heard in the background of the video are members of Biden’s staff, who had made several attempts off-camera to end the interview after it ran over its allotted time,” Mic News reported.